Coal-burning power stations have cut output significantly, while gas-burning has surged ahead, faster than renewables.
Health experts say coal-burning power plants produce far more pollution linked to respiratory health problems than natural gas-fired plants produce.
The emissions licensing regime, shortening the lifespan of coal-burning power stations, has already begun to take big lumps out of capacity.
Proponents point to the particulates released by coal-burning power plants, which, according to some estimates, cause 20, 000 premature deaths annually in the U.S. alone.
Coal-burning power plants may get a new life and one that is tied to the co-firing of biomass, or wood chips, that may result in less pollution.
Beijing catches so much of the pollution from coal-burning power plants because it sits at the center of a ring of mountains, which help trap the smog.
McCarthy would succeed Lisa Jackson, who was repeatedly forced to defend her EPA stance favoring tougher federal standards on toxic pollutants and mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants.
"It looked like a hurricane you would see on television -- the rain was falling horizontally, the patio furniture was moving, " said CNN iReporter Louis Zur Muhlen from suburbs just north of Columbus, where he spotted burning power lines in the road.
In the United States, over the past five years, thanks in part to tax credits from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and ratepayer-funded subsidies for renewable energy, more than 150 large-scale wood-burning power plants have been proposed around the country, said Booth and Sheehan.
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And powdered lignin can be added to pulverized coal for burning in power plants.
The campaign group said that there were more efficient methods of burning gas for power which would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and could create more jobs.
Environmentalists are also concerned at new subsidies for burning wood pellets in power stations.
Abtech is developing generators that will get their power by burning oil-engorged Smart Sponges.
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Today, Nicaragua produces electric power by burning oil and coal.
It may be surprising to see management as a social grace, but fulfilling the burning need to exercise power in a relatively harmless manner provides a useful social service.
The idea is to capture the carbon dioxide emissions from burning the coal for power, then piping the CO2 around to be injected into old oil fields to coax out more stubborn crude.
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In the days before sit-ins, flower power and bra burning, Roth capitalized on the subversive appeal to kids of bleeding eyes and drooling rodents.
In the days before sit-ins, flower power and bra burning were popular in the U.S., Roth capitalized on the subversive appeal to kids of bleeding eyes and drooling rodents.
At the time, in journalism schools and conferences, the villain of new media was Matt Drudge, the Genghis Khan of the Internet, burning the gates and the power of gatekeeping.
Clean coal is a trade term to describe methods and technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal to generate electric power.
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Oxfam's policy adviser Tracy Carty said the MPs' decision made no sense because it would only increase the burning of harmful biofuels in UK power plants.
That means shipowners who wish to ply these waters will have to stop using bunker fuel (the cheap stuff left over once petrol, diesel and aviation fuel have been distilled from crude oil) to power their vessels because burning it produces too much sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and soot.
Workers struggled to contain a burning reactor at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant as the site emitted small but worrying amounts of radiation.
In fact, government and power plant data show that burning woody biomass releases 1.5 times as much carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour generated as coal, according to the Massachusetts Environmental Energy Alliance.
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The minister's predecessor, Edwin Poots, approved plans for a chicken litter incinerator which it is claimed will power 25, 000 homes by burning chicken waste and bone meal.
Mr Brown has previously called for the UK to increase its nuclear power capacity as an alternative to burning fossil fuels, which many experts believe to be a cause of climate change.
MPs have agreed new subsidies for burning wood and plants in the UK's power stations.
Surprisingly, with all that power, the Blade stayed warm without burning me when gaming with it on my lap.
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